Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Charlie Rose Returns: Fired CBS Anchor Interviews Warren Buffett Four Years After #MeToo Scandal
variety.comWilson Chapman editorFour years after being fired from CBS amid sexual harassment allegations, Charlie Rose has reentered the public eye via an extensive interview with business magnate Warren Buffett.The interview appeared this Thursday on Rose’s personal site, which also features archival interviews he conducted during his time as a CBS news anchor.
On the homepage of the site, Rose notes this is the first interview he’s done in over four years, and implies that this will be the first of several independent interviews he will conduct.“I’m proud to share this recent conversation with Warren Buffett,” Rose states on the website. “It is his first interview on camera in almost a year and the first I’ve done in more than four years.
It is a step in a journey to engage the most interesting people and explore the most compelling ideas in the world.” In 2017, an extensive report from the Washington Post saw eight women accuse Rose of sexual harassment, with several alleging that he groped them or made unwelcome lewd calls to them.Following the publication of the Washington Post story, CBS suspended him, along with Bloomberg and PBS, which produced his long-running titular interview talk show.
He would quickly be fired from CBS, and his PBS show was canceled.Rose’s reckoning took place early on in the #MeToo movement, with the report of his alleged harassment coming out months following the New York Times’ investigation of Harvey Weinstein.Rose’s interview with Buffett does not mention any of the allegations that ended his terms at CBS and PBS.
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